menshevik

IPA/ˈmen.ʃə.vɪk/
IPA/ˈmen.ʃə.vɪk/

menshevik — 名詞

  • mensheviksingular
  • mensheviksplural

1. a person who belonged to the Mensheviks, a moderate socialist faction in early 2

1.名詞C2
釋義

孟什維克派

俄國溫和社會主義派別成員

a person who belonged to the Mensheviks, a moderate socialist faction in early 20th-century Russia that broke from Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1903 and believed socialism should be achieved through elections and parliamentary reform rather than violent revolution

例句

Imran's great-grandfather was a Menshevik who fled Russia after the 1917 Revolution.

Imran 的曾祖父是一名孟什維克派成員,在1917年革命後逃離了俄國。

The history professor explained why the Mensheviks lost to Lenin's Bolsheviks in the end.

歷史教授解釋了為什麼孟什維克派最終輸給了列寧的布爾什維克。

同義詞
  • moderate

    a broader term for anyone who rejects extreme methods; Menshevik is specific to early 20th-century Russian politics

  • reformist

    someone who wants gradual change through existing political systems; Menshevik is a specific historical example of this approach

反義詞
  • Bolshevik

    the rival faction that seized power in the 1917 Revolution and believed in immediate armed uprising

用法筆記

Always capitalised when referring to the historical faction. Refers only to members of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party's moderate wing, not to political moderates in general.

常見錯誤

He was a menshevik in the Labour Party.
He was a moderate in the Labour Party.
💡Menshevik refers only to members of the specific Russian political faction, not to moderates in general.

menshevik — 形容詞